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DOMINICA (Continued) Mary Eugenia Charles; Dominica Democratic Labor Party (DDLP), Oliver Seraphin; Dominica Liberation Movement Alliance (DLMA), William Riviere

Voting strength (1980 election): House of Assembly seats—DFP 17 seats, DLP 2 seats, independent 2 seats

Communists: negligible

Member of: CARICOM, FAO, GATT (de facto), IDA, IFAD, IFC, IMCO, IMF, OAS, UN, UNESCO, UPU, WMO

ECONOMY
GNP: $35 million (1980 est. in 1977 prices), $430 per capita; 1980 real growth rate, —1.4% (est.)

Agricultural products: bananas, citrus, coconuts, cocoa, dasheen

Major industries: agricultural processing, tourism

Electric power: 7,000 kW capacity (1981); 15 million kWh produced (1981), 189 kWh per capita

Exports: $8.9 million (f.o.b., 1980 proj.); bananas, lime juice and oil, cocoa, reexports

Imports: $49 million (c.i.f., 1980 proj.); machinery and equipment, foodstuffs, manufactured articles, cement

Major trade partners: exports—56% UK, 14% East Common Market, 17% rest of CARICOM, 6% other Caribbean, 4% US (1979); imports—25% UK, 12% ECC, 16% rest of Caribbean, 14% US

Aid: economic—bilateral ODA and OOF (1970-79), from Western (non-US) countries, $22.6 million; no military aid

Budget: revenues, $28 million (including grants); expenditures, $30 million (excluding grants) (1980/81)

Monetary conversion rate: 2.70 East Caribbean dollars=US$1

Fiscal year: 1 July-30 June

COMMUNICATIONS
Railroads: none

Highways: 630 km total; 360 km paved, 270 km gravel and earth

Ports: 2 minor (Roseau, Portsmouth)

Civil air: no major transport aircraft

Airfields: 1 with permanent-surface runways 1,220-2,439 m

Telecommunications: 4,000 telephones in fully automatic network (5.1 per 100 popl.); VHF and UHF link to St. Lucia; 2 AM stations and 1 TV station

 

LAND
48,692 km$2$; 14% cultivated, 4% fallow, 17% meadows and pastures, 45% forested, 20% built on or waste

Land boundaries: 361 km

WATER
Limits of territorial waters (claimed): 6 nm (fishing 200 nm; 200 nm exclusive economic zone)

Coastline: 1,288 km

PEOPLE
Population: 6,013,000 (July 1982), average annual growth rate 2.7%

Nationality: noun—Dominican(s); adjective—Dominican

Ethnic divisions: 73% mulatto, 16% white, 11% Negro

Religion: 95% Roman Catholic

Language: Spanish

Literacy: 68%

Labor force: 1.3 million; 73% agriculture, 8% industry, 19% services, and other

Organized labor: 12% of labor force

GOVERNMENT
Official name: Dominican Republic

Type: republic

Capital: Santo Domingo

Political subdivisions: 26 provinces and the National District

Legal system: based on French civil codes; 1966 constitution

National holiday: Independence Day, 27 February Branches: President popularly elected for a four-year term; bicameral legislature consisting of Senate (27 seats) and Chamber of Deputies (91 seats) elected for four-year terms; Supreme Court Government leader: President Antonio (Silvestre) GUZMAN Fernández  59